Disable vim only for jupyter notebook editors

See original GitHub issue

Key bindings for vim and juptyer notebooks overlap, which can frustrate users. For example the period (.) keystroke doesnt work. Also j & k can move the active cell selection.

I prefer vim to be disabled in jupyter notebooks and remained enabled in other editors. This preserves the notebook bindings. Also, notebooks tend to be simpler code/text than traditional source code.

vscode-jupyter said they could not facilitate this: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter/issues/6837

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PiotrCzaplacommented, Aug 10, 2021

The VIM behaviour is really erratic in jupyter notebooks, there were too many bugs to describe them here. So it would be really good to let us disable the plugin in jupyter until the issues are sorted out.

Re. bugs it looks like internal state of plugin gets messed up when one I navigate the jupyter notebook with mouse. It manifest it self with cursor jumping to previous locations on edit, copy to clipboard not working , selection not working correctly etc.

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ltalirzcommented, Jun 16, 2022

In the meanwhile, another issue popped up about this very topic https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/issues/6151

It seems to me there is a real demand for being able to disable the vim plugin for certain file types. Given that both vim and Jupyter notebooks have their own extensive sets of keybindings, it is also not clear to me whether it is even possible to marry vim and Jupyter notebooks in a way that does not lead to unexpected results (as is currently the case).

Is there a good reason for not implementing this feature to disable vim for certain file types?

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